Syllabus

  • Week 1 : Introduction to genomics
  • Week 2 : Alignment of high-throughput sequence reads with exact string-matching
  • Week 3 : Homology, repeats and gene families by similarity searches
  • Week 4 : Neutral sequence evolution by Markov models
  • Week 5 : Phylogenetics and tree reconstruction
  • Week 6 : Speed of evolution (Markov models)
  • Week 7 : Coalescent models (MCMC)
  • Week 8 : Ancestral recombination graphs
  • Week 9 : Midterm
  • Week 9 : Projects
  • Week 10 : Genetic mapping (hypothesis testing)
  • Week 11 : Negative, Selection
  • Week 14 : Projects final presentation